Lecture at Smith College: Global Climate Action: COP 21

October 29, 2015 - 4:30pm (Smith College - Seelye 106)

Conference by Brice Lalonde, the former Environmental Secretary of France and later Minister of the Environment, French Republic Ambassador on Climate Change, and from 2010 to 2012 Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20).

Brice Lalonde is the Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Prior to this appointment Mr. Lalonde served as French Ambassador for climate change, French Minister for the Environment, Chairman of the Round Table for Sustainable Development at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Senior Adviser for the Environment to the French Government. In addition, he held the position of Director of the Paris office of the Institute for a European Environment Policy. Mr. Lalonde has also worked for non-governmental organizations, like Friends of the Earth. He is now Special Advisor on Sustainable Development to the U.N. Global Compact.